1 2025:CGHC:51155 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 8161 of 2025 1 - Vinod Singh S/o Sri Harikesh Bahadur Singh Aged About 38 Years R/o Hemriya, Post Bahriach, District Bahraich, Presently Resides At Police Station Gomti Nagar, Lucknow ... Applicant Versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through - The Ps - Singhora ... Non-applicant For Applicant : Mr. N. Naha Roy, Advocate For Non-applicant : Ms. Ankita Shukla, Panel Lawyer S.B. : Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 14.10.2025 1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of regular bail to the applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 04/2025 registered at Police Station – Singhora, District - Mahsamund (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Section 20 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that police authorities of Police Station - Singhora, District - Mahasamund (C.G.) were patrolling on Vehicle No. CG 06 CD 8267 and when the reached near Chivrakuta, they received secret information from the informant alleging that the applicant along with the other co-accused persons possessing contraband Ganja was traveling in an car SHUBHAM DEY Digitally signed by SHUBHAM DEY 2 i.e. Innova bearing registration no. UP 32 DQ 1033 from Odisha to Chhattisgarh and on the basis of said information, Police have conducted raid at NH 53 and seized 149.400 Kgs of Ganja from the possession of the applicant and other co-accused persons, thereafter, the offence has been registered against the applicant and he was arrested. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the applicant has been falsely implicated in this case and he is in jail since 10.01.2025. He would further submits that the mandatory provisions with regard to search and seizure were not complied with in this case and the conclusion of the trial may take quite long time. Accordingly, he prays for enlarging the applicant on regular bail. 4. Learned State counsel would oppose the bail application and submit that the applicant has one criminal antecedents from Lucknow, State of Uttar Pradesh and the charge-sheet has been filed in the present case before the competent Court. As such, the present applicant is not entitled to be released on bail. 5. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the case diary. 6. Considering the fact that the applicant has one criminal antecedent from Lucknow, State of Uttar Pradesh and the charge-sheet has been filed before the competent Court in the present case and also in light of the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in Deepak Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Another, reported in (2022) 8 SCC 559, wherein the Hon’ble Supreme Court had cancelled the bail granted to the accused therein on the ground that the accused had previous antecedents, this Court is of the opinion that is not a fit case to enlarge the applicant on regular bail. 7. Accordingly, the second bail application of the applicant - Vinod Singh, involved in Crime No. 04/2025 registered at Police Station - Singhora, District Mahasamund (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Section 20 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, is rejected at this 3 stage. 8. Office is directed to send a certified copy of this order to the trial Court concerned for necessary information and compliance forthwith. Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) Chief Justice Dey